Hong Kong
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The white wreaths were piled high on the doorsteps of a funeral house in Hong Kong, a stark reminder of a city still laying its dead to rest more than four weeks after a devastating fire.
Outside Universal Funeral Parlour were thousands of mourners waiting for their turn to pay their respects to a fireman who died battling an inferno that burned for almost two days and killed at least 160 people on a government-subsidized housing estate.
Friends, colleagues and members of the public bowed and laid incense offerings in tribute to Ho Wai-ho, 37, who was killed while trying to put out the blaze that engulfed seven high-rise residential blocks in the Tai Po…